TELEGRAMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1920, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

v rr;a r liras association —cor vine, ht: METHODIST CONFERENCE. AUCKLAND, MaUch 7. The Methodist Conference resolved that the next conference be held at Wellington.

The supernumerary fund showed : n income of £83,344;' and accumulated funds of £99,185. It was agreed to decrease- to supernumerary ministers and widows by 15 per cent, 'flic church property report showed a decrease in church property debts amounting to £5962. Advances from the building ami loan funds amounted to £3825.

DK,OWNING ACCIDENT. GISBORNE, March 7. A sensational accident occurred on tlie Waikanac Beach at 7 o’clock last ** night as a result of which a married man named Ronald Mclnnes, 51 years of age was drowned. Deceased with another man named Leonard Burns, went fishing in a flat-bottomed boat. I The boat drifted within 100 yards of the beach and capsized in the breakers. Both men started to swim ashore and then turned back and attempted to right the boat. This they failed to do and started again for the shore. ACclrfneis en.llcd for assistance and Bnrne attempted to go back, but wn s washed away by a breaker. Bnrne got near the land exhausted and was pulled ashore by Mr and Mrs Ernest Warren. Mr Ralph Worse strain through the breakers to rescue Mclnnes, who was brought ashore in a state of collapse. I Artificial respiration \vas tried for half aji hour, but was useless. i MOTOR CYCLE OVERTURNS. MASTER TON, March 7. A man named Cornelius Wiley was admitted to the Grey town Hospital last night suffering from serious injuries sustained through collision with n goods train while riding a motor cycle. A motor car ran into the motor cycle and side-chair occupied by Mr Albert Falconer, his wife and two children, in Masterton this morning. One of the children was admitted to hospital, se- J vercly injured, while the others suffered a shaking and abrasions.

MAN COMMITS SUICIDE. , MASTERTON, March 7. Robert McKinnon, a married man, aged 37 years, who lias been a station manager in the district for some years, shot himself in llie bead with a revolver at his home at Lansdowne on Saturday afternoon. He died later in the hospital. At the inquest it was shown that ho had been suffering from a nervous break down ,and a verdict of suicide while temporarily insane was returned.